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Political literature2 quotes
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1766There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Comedy (play)1 quote
How apt the poor are to be proud! — William Shakespeare · 1602Religious literature1 quote
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker. — Proverbs 17:5 · 686 BCRomantic comedy (play)1 quote
How apt the poor are to be proud! — William Shakespeare · 1602Tragedy (play)1 quote
Fortune, that arrant whore,
Ne’er turns the key to th’ poor. — William Shakespeare · 1606